Jaypreen, I try as much as possible to base my views on facts and not prejudice; I leave prejudice to others. If you are indeed interested in the data about HE researchers leaving the UK, you can read this: www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/brexit-eu-academics-university-no-deal-professors-a9047616.html There are plenty of other similar reports, published in THES among others. And such surveys do not even capture cases of those that would be interested in coming to the UK but have now decided against it because of Brexit. In my institution, one of the largest in the Russell group, we have stuggled since Brexit to fill in senior posts because of guess what? High-skilled researchers no longer want to come to the UK given the greater difficulties they would encounter if they were to work here and the negative attitudes around migrants that would not only affect them but also their families, including their kids. If you expect that many of these people would be prepared to ignore these, you are mistaken. It is actually quite astonishing how Brexiteers expect such people to want to come to the UK given the situation at present and the fact that due to their skills those people can easily get a job anywhere else in the EU. This is also why no-one buys the idea, expressed by the OP and others, that Brexiteers are in favour of highly-skilled migration. In UK universities, EU high-skilled migrants make up a large number of researchers. Not suprisingly, you will also find (if you do some research) that more EU citizens tend to have higher degrees than UK nationals. I am not basing this on prejudice but rather hard data: www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/doctoral-graduates-phd-tertiary-education/ Brexiteers may prefer to say that they are in favour of high-skill migration to feel better about themselves but it will be interesting to see what will happen if (and this is a big if given the situation) migration from non-EU countries increases. As for the information about Germany and France, I am frankly at a loss in terms of how it is related to the issue discussed here, which is about Brexit and EU migration.